I've gotten Django up and running on my Dreamhost account. The admin interface loads great; however I cannot get Django to find my template files, stored in the folder 'templates' in my project root. I get a TemplateDoesNotExist error every time. I have tried setting my TEMPLATE_DIRS both using the full path, and import os and getting dirname.

The site runs beautifully locally, and I can't figure out why it can't find my templates when running on the server.

If anyone has any tips on how to specify the correct folder, or where a better place to put my templates would be, it would be appreciated.

There does seem to be quite a few problems with it according to the forum posts. It's a bit surprising though considering it's one of the standard frameworks out there. Have you contacted Support? They can be useful sometimes.